Ingredients of Love
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. I Corinthians 1:1-8
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.” I Corinthians 1:1-8
LOVE... IS PATIENT IS KIND DOES NOT ENVY DOES NOT BOAST IS NOT PROUD IS NOT RUDE IS NOT SELF SEEKING
LOVE... IS NOT EASILY ANGERED KEEPS NO RECORD OF WRONG DOES NOT DELIGHT IN EVIL BUT REJOICES IN TRUTH ALWAYS TRUST, BELIEVES ALL THINGS ALWAYS HOPES ALWAYS ENDURES DOES NOT FAIL
CHRIST... IS PATIENT IS KIND DOES NOT ENVY DOES NOT BOAST IS NOT PROUD IS NOT RUDE IS NOT SELF SEEKING
CHRIST... IS NOT EASILY ANGERED KEEPS NO RECORD OF WRONG DOES NOT DELIGHT IN EVIL BUT REJOICES IN TRUTH ALWAYS TRUST, BELIEVES ALL THINGS ALWAYS HOPES ALWAYS ENDURES DOES NOT FAIL
We are Christians. As Christians we are to be “Christ Like”. Which means we are to imitate Christ in all aspects of our life. How well are we doing? Let’s take a quick quiz!
(YOUR NAME)... IS PATIENT IS KIND DOES NOT ENVY DOES NOT BOAST IS NOT PROUD IS NOT RUDE IS NOT SELF SEEKING
(YOUR NAME)... IS NOT EASILY ANGERED KEEPS NO RECORD OF WRONG DOES NOT DELIGHT IN EVIL BUT REJOICES IN TRUTH ALWAYS TRUST, BELIEVES ALL THINGS ALWAYS HOPES ALWAYS ENDURES DOES NOT FAIL
How Well Did You Do?
Let us mature as Christians and become more Christ like each and everyday!
“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:12-14
ARE YOU PRESSING TOWARD THE PRIZE?
By Bob Gard – Hollister, Missouri church of Christ www By Bob Gard – Hollister, Missouri church of Christ www.hollisterchurchofchrist.org Adapted from lesson at www.e-devotionals.org by David Massey